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Today, the nationally recognized attorneys from Baron & Budd obtained an $834,012,000 judgment against global pharmaceutical companies, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Sanofi Aventis U.S. LLC, Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc., and Sanofi US Services Inc., on behalf of the State of Hawai‘i, resolving consumer protection claims that these companies engaged in unfair and deceptive practices involving their blockbuster drug, Plavix.
Plavix is an oral antiplatelet medication designed to prevent the formation of blood clots in patients who have recently suffered from a heart attack or stroke. However, after a four-week trial the court found that Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi knew at the time Plavix was first sold to the public in 1998 that there was a significant, yet undisclosed, limitation to the drug, specifically a diminished patient response, particularly in those of non-Caucasian races. However, despite the serio